Re: [tied] family

In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex_lycos" <altamix@...> wrote:

> Miguel Carrasquer wrote:
>
>>> 1) Rom. Word "femeie" ( women) is givin as deriving from latin
>>> "famiglia" (family)
>>
>> That is correct

Up to Alex's usual spelling lack of proficiency. The Latin word
is "familia", "famiglia" is Italian.

> to quote you here:
>
> "I had forgotten about Ita. serpe,
> which can perhaps be explained by loss of -n in Eastern Romance"
>
> femina , lost of "n" - > femia > femeia
>
> how is that?

Before answering to that, one should know that the phonetic part
which speaks against this derivation was already explained to Alex
in detail. Besides that, the Aromanian word /f&meal'e/ is by all
means decisive in arguing one should look for an "l", not an "n".

Marius Iacomi